Fox's Eric Bolling repeated a long-debunked talking point that federal workers' total compensation is twice that of private-sector workers. In fact, the comparison does not account for occupation, education, or experience, and government salaries are based on private-sector pay for comparable occupations in a given region.

MSNBC host Ed Schultz will be placed on unpaid administrative leave for a week after he made sexist comments on his radio show directed at conservative commentator and Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham. Schultz issued an apology for the comments Wednesday night.

Holding employees accountable when they make unacceptable comments as Schultz did, is how a news organization behaves. Indeed, it's the way that any responsible organization behaves.

But accountability for unacceptable rhetoric has no apparent place at Fox.

Fox News' Glenn Beck has twice called Sen. Mary Landrieu a prostitute - including once on Fox News itself - without any evident accountability.

Beck infamously accused President Obama of being a "racist" with a "deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture." Beck faced no demonstrable accountability at Fox for this statement.

Just this week, Fox's Eric Bolling criticized Obama for traveling to Europe for the G-8 summit, outrageously claiming that Obama was "chugging a few 40s" rather than attending to tragic tornadoes in Missouri. (Local officials have praised the White House for its response to the disaster.) Bolling has been widely criticized for making "racially tinged" comments, but to date there has been no accountability for his comments at Fox.

There was no apparent accountability for Sean Hannity when in 2009 he refused to criticize "friend and frequent guest of the program" Ted Nugent for calling Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a "worthless bitch."

As Media Matters has documented, conservative media figures have attacked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for using the pension funds of federal workers to ensure that the government continues to meet its legal obligations while the White House and lawmakers attempt to strike a deal to increase the debt limit.

Media Matters also noted several reasons why these attacks don't hold water. First, Geithner's actions are in line with those of the Treasury Department under former Presidents Bush and Clinton. Second, federal workers and retirees will not be affected by these measures as the Treasury is legally required to reimburse the program once the debt limit is increased. And third, economic disaster could have occurred had Geithner not taken these measures.

It's impossible to know how many members of the right-wing media knew all these facts but decided it was too good to pass up the cheap shot against Geithner. What is extremely, unlikely, however, is that the right-wing media have the best interests of public employees at heart. That is because the conservative media have a long history of attacking public workers -- including blaming financial problems on their pensions.

One of the ways in which conservative media have attempted to vilifying public workers is by pushing the falsehood that public sector workers earn more than their private sector counterparts. Fox's Mike Huckabee, for example, has claimed that "public union workers [make] 30% better wages [and] 70% better benefits than their private sector counterparts." Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson has likewise said that public sector workers "make more than you do" and "won't even consider taking any kind of cut."

Conservative media have also attacked public sector workers for their supposed incompetence and for having it too cushy.

Right-wing media have seized on President Obama's use of the incorrect date when signing the Westminster Abbey guest book to claim that Obama has had "too much Guinness" during his trip. This follows the conservative media's other attacks on the president's trip to Europe, as well as their history of baselessly smearing Obama.

After taking heat for accusing President Obama of abdicating his duties and instead "chugging 40s" in Ireland, Fox's Eric Bolling has gone to great lengths to explain that he's not race-baiting Obama; he is simply saying Obama has a drinking problem.

Monday night, Bolling went trolling on Twitter for people to watch his Fox Business show, promising to discuss Obama "chugging 40s" in Ireland rather than responding to tragic tornadoes in Missouri. (It's important to note here that local officials have praised the White House for their rapid response to the disaster that Bolling is using to smear Obama.)

People tuning in to the show were treated to Bolling ripping Obama for "entertaining rappers" at the White House and "chugging a few 40's." MSNBC's Ed Schultz and Think Progress criticized Bolling for a racial tinge to these attacks.

Returning to Twitter, Bolling responded, directing people to the online slang dictionary, which defines "forty" as referring to "a 40 ounce bottle of an alcoholic beverage" or "a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor."

Right-wing media have attacked President Obama for traveling to Europe following the tornadoes in Missouri. However, the administration's response to the tornadoes has continued during Obama's trip to Europe, and Missouri officials have praised the administration's response. This follows a long history of right-wing media attacking Obama for focusing on more than one issue at a time during crises and trying to label various crises "Obama's Katrina."

Eric Bolling's attempts to cast doubt on President Obama's long-form birth certificate continue to prove an embarrassment to the Fox Business host.

Last night on Fox Business' America's Nightly Scoreboard -- which airs an hour before Bolling's show Follow The Money -- guest host Gregg Jarrett hosted widely discredited author Jerome Corsi and criticized those casting doubt on Obama's long-form. Jarrett told Corsi, "So many people have looked at it very, very carefully and nobody that is seriously minded has said this is a fake."

While Jarrett didn't mention Bolling, the critique could easily be applied to him. After President Obama released his long-form on April 27, Bolling didn't come to the same conclusion as "seriously minded" people. Bolling told radio host Mike Gallagher that he has "a lot of questions" about the just-released certificate and added, "I certainly don't think it's been put to rest."

Later that night, Bolling took to his Fox Business program and tried his hardest to cast doubts on the certificate's authenticity. Bolling said "there's a green border around it that had to be Photoshopped in" and wondered why the family of Obama's delivery doctor was unaware he delivered "the president." (The doctor died in 2003.) Bolling also turned to discredited birther Pamela Geller, who told Bolling's audience that "this is a certification of a live birth. This is actually not a birth certificate."

The New York Times was forced to issue two corrections after relying on Capitol Hill anonymous sourcing for its flawed report on emails from former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The Clinton debacle is the latest example of why the media should be careful when relying on leaks from partisan congressional sources -- this is far from the first time journalists who did have been burned.

Several Fox News figures are attempting to shift partial blame onto Samuel DuBose for his own death at the hands of a Cincinnati police officer during a traffic stop, arguing DuBose should have cooperated with the officer's instructions if he wanted to avoid "danger."

Iowa radio host Steve Deace is frequently interviewed as a political analyst by mainstream media outlets like NPR, MSNBC, and The Hill when they need an insider's perspective on the GOP primary and Iowa political landscape. However, these outlets may not all be aware that Deace gained his insider status in conservative circles by broadcasting full-throated endorsements of extreme right-wing positions on his radio show and writing online columns filled with intolerant views that he never reveals during main stream media appearances.